Art Essays
The Wandering Earth
Friday, March 15th, 2019 Art Essays, Books,BOOKS READ: The Wandering Earth by Cixin Liu Head of Zeus Hardback, 2017 (orig. 2013), 447 pp Cixin Liu has built a huge reputation as a science fiction writer in a relatively short time. As this is a genre in which I’ve only ever found a few really excellent authors – namely Philip K. […]
29 Artists
Friday, March 15th, 2019 Art Essays, Books,BOOKS RECEIVED: 29 Artists by Christopher Walsh Privately published. www.chriswalshphotography 124 pp. Large format paperback, AUD$55.00 Chris Walsh handed me a copy of this book after a talk on Chinese art at Delmar Gallery. It’s a series of large photos taken in the studios of 29 Chinese contemporary artists. There are a few […]
Noŋgirrŋa Marawili – Alcaston Galleries, Melbourne
Saturday, February 2nd, 2019 Art Essays, Good Weekend Art Column,Artist: Noŋgirrŋa Marawili Lives: Yirrkala, Arnhem Land, Northern Territory Age:80 (b. c.1938) Represented by:Alcaston Galleries, Melbourne & Australia-wide Her thing. Innovative bark paintings and prints on traditional Yolngu themes. Our take.At the age of 80, or thereabouts, Noŋgirrŋa Marawili is emerging as one of the most dynamic indigenous artists at work today. This is usually a […]
Newsletter 272
Saturday, February 2nd, 2019 Art Essays, Newsletter,Although Australia often seems to ape the United States in the most abject fashion there are a few significant points of difference. This may not have occurred to our buffoon of a Prime Minister who thinks that wearing a baseball cap and eating a meat pie will make him look like a man of the […]
Kushana Bush – Darren Knight Gallery, Sydney
Saturday, January 26th, 2019 Art Essays, Good Weekend Art Column,Artist: Kushana Bush Lives: Dunedin, New Zealand Age:35 Represented by:Darren Knight Gallery, 840 Elizabeth St. Waterloo, Sydney (no Melbourne representation) Her thing. Small, exquisite paintings that echo Mugal miniatures, but with contemporary themes. Our take.Kushana Bush’s paintings can’t be fully appreciated with a quick glance. Like the Mugal miniatures they resemble, her gouaches are packed with […]
Newsletter 271
Saturday, January 26th, 2019 Art Essays, Newsletter,Back in Sydney, where I’m greeted by the news that the NSW Opposition has come out decisively against moving the Powerhouse Museum to Parramatta. This makes me feel a little upstaged, as I’ve written a plea to the Opposition Leader, Michael Daly, in the forthcoming issue of Artist Profile, asking him for just such a […]
Newsletter 270
Saturday, January 19th, 2019 Art Essays, Newsletter,Still travelling, and still scrambling with deadlines, I’m now in Taipei for the inaugural Dangdai art fair. Of all the contemporary art fairs in the world this one seems to have had the smoothest of launches. Director, Magnus Renfrew, has been-there-and-done-that with the early version of the Hong Kong art fair, which has now grown […]
Clara Adolphs – Lindberg Galleries, Melbourne
Saturday, January 19th, 2019 Art Essays, Good Weekend Art Column,Artist: Clara Adolphs Lives: Bundanoon, NSW Age:33 Represented by:Lindberg Galleries, 1270A High St. Armadale, Melbourne (Chalk Horse, 301A, Level 3/77-83 William St. Darlinghurst, Sydney; Edwina Corlette Gallery, 2/555 Brunswick St. New Farm, Brisbane). Her thing. Oil paintings based on found photographs that tap into our own memories and experiences. Our take.Clara Adolphs is not the first […]
Newsletter 269
Saturday, January 12th, 2019 Art Essays, Newsletter,This will be a very short newsletter as I’m in Laos, meeting the artists who are taking part in this year’s Asia Pacific Triennial at QAGOMA. My host is Garry Stafford, of the Spellbrook Foundation, who spent 20 years working in the mining industry in Laos, and developed an affection for the country and the […]
Newsletter 268
Saturday, January 5th, 2019 Art Essays, Newsletter,One more week’s break from the art column, and I can see a big year ahead. It would be good to have time to do a little more research and write longer pieces but everything in the modern workplace trends in the opposite direction. One writes an ever-greater quantity of shorter articles, trying to make […]